New to this and clueless

Well, we do have videos at: Getting Started with Carbide Create as well as https://docs.carbide3d.com/assembly/carbidecreate/userguide/ and a cheatsheet: http://community.carbide3d.com/uploads/default/original/2X/d/d6657615141501572de882f37b379a9f14996769.pdf

and here is one video which is especially basic:

Some textual ones which you may find of interest:

https://wiki.shapeoko.com/index.php/Child_Name_or_Letter_Board

and

https://wiki.shapeoko.com/index.php/Creating_a_rustic_letter

If you’d let us know what sort of work you’re trying to do and where you’re getting stuck we’ll gladly try to help.